Children could buy the liquor for $3 (€2.3) per serving

Mar 1, 2013 12:39 GMT  ·  By
A Pepsi vending machine in the Trinidad neighborhood, Washington D.C. was selling malt liquor
   A Pepsi vending machine in the Trinidad neighborhood, Washington D.C. was selling malt liquor

A Pepsi vending machine in Washington D.C. has been rigged to serve malt liquor, reports say. The Trinidad Neighborhood Association reported the incident, with someone tweeting about the liquor-dispensing soda machine.

“MPD has found a Pepsi machine in the front yard of a #TrinidadDC apartment building that was vending cans of malt liquor. @TNAdc,” a participant at the Trinidad meeting wrote.

Apparently, the dispenser dished out liquor for $3 (€2.3) per serving, and children in the neighborhood would buy it. Since nobody came around to claim the dispenser, association president Danielle Bays tells the DCist that it has been removed.

“The Pepsi machine was in front of a 4-unit apartment and of course no one claimed responsibility for it. It charged $3 for the malt liquor so kids were buying it (cheaper for adults to get at the store). MPD disabled it and were waiting for the property owner to have it removed,” she says.